Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i5-11400F specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400F beats the Core i7-6700HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-11400F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700HQ. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700HQ. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-6700HQ and Core i5-11400F are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6700HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11400F CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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